Netanyahu v. Israel Katz: "Endangers the future of the Likud to get some votes"

The leader of the opposition sharply attacked a senior member of his party, claiming that he supported the "new Likudniks," whom he called a "disgusting phenomenon." Account of the good of the state and the movement "

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21/12/2021

Tuesday, 21 December 2021, 21:47 Updated: 22:19

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Stretching top Likud opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu lashed out today and exceeded MK Israel Katz, director of the background Likud's efforts to oust from the party function that belong to a "new Likudnikim."

Netanyahu wrote a long post on social networks against new Likudnikim, which applies particularly to Katz, who also serves as chairman of the Likud secretariat.

"I expected all Likud members, including the heads of the party's institutions, to fight vigorously against them and work to get them out of the movement. Everyone did it except Israel Katz, who to this day has acted and is doing the opposite," Netanyahu wrote.

"Anyone who thinks that in order to get a few votes it is possible to endanger the future of the Likud and the future of us all, will find that more than 130,000 members and Likud members will not forgive him for it."

Netanyahu's attack on Katz is especially noticeable in light of the two's recent attempt to warm up and get closer in their relationship - Netanyahu and his wife Sarah have met with Katz and his wife Ronit twice in recent weeks.

However, Katz is considered to be supported by the new Likudniks, a group that is considered by Netanyahu and many senior Likud members as a kind of "fifth corps" of leftists who want to take over the party from within.

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Netanyahu and Katz (Photo: Reuters)

In recent years, the Likud administration has been leading moves to dilute the power of the "new Likudniks" and their influence on the party primaries, as part of which the membership of thousands of functionaries affiliated with the group has been abolished, and these days there is another effort to prevent their return to the party.

Netanyahu wrote tonight on social media that the "new Likudniks" are extreme leftists who act like "Trojans" to crush the Likud from within.

"The members of the New Likudniks, many of whom are members of left-wing parties such as the Labor Party and the joint list, including many who were leaders of the 'black flags', are functioning for the Likud to drag the party to the left in all areas."

"Endangering the future of the Likud", Israel Katz (Photo: Danny Shem Tov, Knesset Spokeswoman)

"They demand support for concessions to the Palestinians, work against settlement in Judea and Samaria, pressure to form a government with the left and the right-wing and work to perpetuate the rule of officials and legal advisers," the opposition leader added. The real ones from the leadership of the field and later from the leadership of the state. "

He also wrote that" a real Likud member must fight this despicable phenomenon with all his might!

Such people have no place in the Likud movement.

It's undemocratic and it's destructive to the future of our party.

Along with the many who are fighting against this phenomenon, there are unfortunately some who prefer to get votes from them in the primaries at the expense of the good of the state and the movement. "

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